Review – Leprechaun Origins

I’ve been watching Leprechaun movies since the first one hit video in the early 1990s, but until tonight nobody anywhere could ever have convinced me that removing the title character would actually make the movie worse. But holy St. Patrick, is this ever a dreadful movie. The notes on IMDb declare that Dylan “Hornswoggle” Postl carefully avoided watching any of the previous movies in the series in order to avoid undue influence on his performance. Good thing, because otherwise he might have shown up on the set expecting to have lines and wear makeup that made him look like a leprechaun rather than some kind of mutant dog so craptacular that it had to be shot exclusively in poorly-lit, soft-focused jump cuts. Fans of the previous entries in the series – or really anyone who wants to see a movie with a script or any semblance of technical quality – will walk away sorely disappointed. Wish I’d skipped it